Model comparison

whisper-large-v3-turbo vs whisper-large-v3

At Q4_K_M, whisper-large-v3-turbo is the smaller download — 536,069,728 bytes against 997,303,008.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

whisper-large-v3-turbowhisper-large-v3
Parameters809M1.5B
Architecturewhisperwhisper
Layers3232
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published3118
Smallest quantization0.27 GiB0.49 GiB
Q4_K_M0.50 GiB0.93 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextwhisper-large-v3-turbowhisper-large-v3Ratio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072